Meaning of "kept" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF KEPT

kept  [kɛpt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KEPT

Kept is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb kept in English.

WHAT DOES KEPT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kept

Kept is a reality television series that centered on Jerry Hall searching for a kept man. The show premiered on the American cable network VH1 in late May 2005. When Hall narrowed the list down to twelve, she spirited them off to London and eliminated them one by one. The final three consisted of Anwar, Austen and Seth. In the August 4 finale, Hall was torn between Austen and Seth but ultimately chose Seth as he knew how to have fun and she thought he had matured throughout the process. Seth claims that he got his $100 000 in prize money but after filming stopped he never saw Jerry, the penthouse apartment, or the Lamborghini again.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO KEPT

PRESENT

Present

I keep

you keep

he/she/it keeps

we keep

you keep

they keep

Present continuous

I am keeping

you are keeping

he/she/it is keeping

we are keeping

you are keeping

they are keeping

Present perfect

I have kept

you have kept

he/she/it has kept

we have kept

you have kept

they have kept

Present perfect continuous

I have been keeping

you have been keeping

he/she/it has been keeping

we have been keeping

you have been keeping

they have been keeping

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I kept

you kept

he/she/it kept

we kept

you kept

they kept

Past continuous

I was keeping

you were keeping

he/she/it was keeping

we were keeping

you were keeping

they were keeping

Past perfect

I had kept

you had kept

he/she/it had kept

we had kept

you had kept

they had kept

Past perfect continuous

I had been keeping

you had been keeping

he/she/it had been keeping

we had been keeping

you had been keeping

they had been keeping

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will keep

you will keep

he/she/it will keep

we will keep

you will keep

they will keep

Future continuous

I will be keeping

you will be keeping

he/she/it will be keeping

we will be keeping

you will be keeping

they will be keeping

Future perfect

I will have kept

you will have kept

he/she/it will have kept

we will have kept

you will have kept

they will have kept

Future perfect continuous

I will have been keeping

you will have been keeping

he/she/it will have been keeping

we will have been keeping

you will have been keeping

they will have been keeping

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would kept

you would kept

he/she/it would kept

we would kept

you would kept

they would kept

Conditional continuous

I would be keeping

you would be keeping

he/she/it would be keeping

we would be keeping

you would be keeping

they would be keeping

Conditional perfect

I would have kept

you would have kept

he/she/it would have kept

we would have kept

you would have kept

they would have kept

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been keeping

you would have been keeping

he/she/it would have been keeping

we would have been keeping

you would have been keeping

they would have been keeping

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you keep
we let´s keep
you keep

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to keep

Past participle

kept

Present Participle

keeping

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «KEPT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «kept» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of kept

acknowledge · administer · amass · arrest · block · board · breed · bring up · carry · carry on · carry out · castle · celebrate · check · cherish · chronicle · citadel · commemorate · conserve · constrain · continue · curb · delay · deposit · detain · deter · direct · document · donjon · dungeon · embrace · execute · farm · fastness · feed · finance · follow · food · foster · fulfil · fund · go on · govern · hamper · hamstring · handle · hang with · have · heap · heed · hinder · hold · hold back · honour · house · impede · inhibit · kai · keep back · limit · livelihood · living · log · look after · maintain · maintenance · manage · mark · means · mind · nourish · nourishment · nurture · obey · observe · obstruct · oversee · own · perform · pile · place · preserve · prevent · put · raise · rear · recognize · record · remain · report · respect · restrain · retain · retard · ritualize · rule · run · safeguard · save · sell · set back · set down · shackle · shelter · solemnize · stack · stall · stay · stock · stop · store · stow · stronghold · subsidize · subsistence · superintend · supervise · supply · support · sustain · sustenance · take care of · take down · tend · tower · upkeep · withhold · write

TRANSLATION OF KEPT

Find out the translation of kept to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of kept from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kept» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 保持
• Translator English - Spanish: guardado
• English: kept
• Translator English - Hindi: रखा
• Translator English - Arabic: أبقى
• Translator English - Russian: хранится
• Translator English - Portuguese: mantido
• Translator English - Bengali: রাখা
• Translator English - French: conservé
• Translator English - Malay: Disimpan
• Translator English - German: gehalten
• Translator English - Japanese: 保た
• Translator English - Korean: 유지
• Translator English - Javanese: Katahan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: giữ
• Translator English - Tamil: வைத்து
• Translator English - Marathi: ठेवले
• Translator English - Turkish: tuttu
• Translator English - Italian: tenere
• Translator English - Polish: utrzymane
• Translator English - Ukrainian: зберігається
• Translator English - Romanian: păstrate
• Translator English - Greek: φυλάσσονται
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gehou
• Translator English - Swedish: hålls
• Translator English - Norwegian: holdt

10 QUOTES WITH «KEPT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word kept.

1

Saint Ambrose

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

2

Mary Astell

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

3

Wes Boyd

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

4

Jack Buck

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

5

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

6

Octavia E. Butler

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

7

Earl Campbell

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

8

Pete Cashmore

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

9

Ray Charles

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

10

Joseph Force Crater

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KEPT»

Discover the use of kept in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kept and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept

This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up. It is recommended that children be read this story by a parent or caregiver.

Jayneen Sanders, 2010

Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret, the third volume in Archer’s bestselling series, will answer all these questions but, once again, pose so many more… “[A] PAGE-TURNING, HEART-STOPPING SAGA.” —Publishers Weekly on Sins of the Father

Jeffrey Archer, 2013

A Secret Kept

How did he end up here? And, more importantly, what was the secret that his sister wanted to tell him? A Secret Kept plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present.

Tatiana de Rosnay, 2011

Kept

A funny and sexy new paranormal romance, perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Patricia Briggs, Kept features the charmingly quirky werewolf, Natalya Stravinsky, as she navigates the minefields of love and war in the Garden State.

Shawntelle Madison, 2012

Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners

Cut off by her upper-crust Korean family, Judith Lee finds herself unable to cope in the working world and eventually applying her manners, good looks, and artistic knowledge to a vocation as a courtesan in the luxurious townhouse of Madame ...

Y. Euny Hong, 2007

Kept

Who said being a dominant Sugar Daddy was going to be easy?Self-made millionaire Reed Douglas wanted a woman in his life, but he didn't have the time for even the barest of social rituals.

Carolyn Faulkner, 2010

Kept

Ethan and Derek Taggart: they're the men of Gemini, and when it comes to sheet-scorching undercover work, nobody does it better.

Jami Alden, 2009

Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink-And How They Can ...

Using “investigative rigor and thoughtful analysis” (The Boston Globe), Glaser is the first to document that American women are drinking more often than ever and in ever-larger quantities in this “substantial book, interested in hard ...

Gabrielle Glaser, 2013

Kept

If I have put anybody down or lifted anybody up in this book then I have failed.

Mary Pat, 2004

Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of ...

Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison.

J. Brooks Bouson, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KEPT»

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Queen and Queen Mother kept British hope alive in World War Two …

As the dark shadow of Nazism swept across Europe, two women kept the flame of hope alive in the hearts of the British people. The Queen ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

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Best Kept Secrets: Uwharrie National Forest | News & Observer …

Best Kept Secrets: Uwharrie National Forest. Visit a drive-in theater in Albemarle,NC. Boat, fish or swim in Badin Lake. Stop at the Eldorado Outpost for a meal. «News & Observer, Jul 15»

Knicks have kept Carmelo in the loop — even if Phil Jackson hasn't …

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Kvarner Bay: Croatia's best-kept secret - Telegraph

Kvarner Bay: Croatia's best-kept secret. Discover a dramatic coastline and a string of islands with hidden coves on a sailing through Croatia's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Two Clallam County commissioners kept quiet on audit over …

But Commissioners Jim McEntire and Bill Peach kept their colleague, four-term Commissioner Mike Chapman, in the dark. McEntire and Peach ... «Peninsula Daily, Jul 15»

Cajon Pass I-15 fire kept social media buzzing

LAS VEGAS (KSVN News3LV) -- Some of the best images came from the people who lived through the fire. Twitter, Instagram and Vine ... «News3LV, Jul 15»

Letter: No one kept from worship of choice - Springfield News-Leader

Recently there has been a lot of talk about placing the motto “In God We Trust” on public buildings. This is one of many attempts by Christians to ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jul 15»

Pospisil: The energizer runner, Schmidt kept on going - Omaha.com …

NEBRASKA 100 Pospisil: The energizer runner, Schmidt kept on going. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: ... «Omaha World-Herald, Jul 15»

Cajon Pass I-15 fire kept social media buzzing - News3LV

Cajon Pass I-15 fire kept social media buzzing. Video. Social media delivered breathtaking images of Cajon fire. Reported by: John Treanor. «News3LV, Jul 15»